Ilana Blumberg
By Ilana Blumberg
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Life Jewish Female Scholars Find Inspiration in Same
In the past two weeks, I have had coffee with two important Jewish women who have spent the fall semester as fellows at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Both have reminded me of the value of good conversation and the affective and intellectual gifts of getting together with…
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Life Books Aren’t Born: Writing and Gestating Just Aren’t Comparable
My son, Shai, was born on January 21, 2007 and two days later, in time for our arrival home from the hospital, a heavy cardboard box arrived in the mail. University of Nebraska Press had sent me 20 copies of my first book, “Houses Of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books,” which I had been…
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Yiddish זאַמלבוך באַשרײַבט די ייִדישע קולטור אין פֿאַר־מלחמהדיקן פּוילן, פֿונעם 'דאָיִקייט'־קוקווינקלNew book describes Jewish culture in prewar Poland, from a ‘Doikayt’ perspective
אינטערעסאַנט איז וואָס די קראָקעװער ייִדן האָבן זיך געפֿילט מער פּױליש, אײדער ייִדן אין אַנדערע שטעט, װי װילנע
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Art Paintings, Judaica and history collide at Tobi Kahn’s Eldridge Street exhibition
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Yiddish ווי אַזוי האָט אויסגעזען דאָס לעבן אין דעטראָיטס אַמאָליקן ייִדישן קוואַרטאַל?What was life like in Detroit’s old Jewish quarter?
אַ נײַע אויסשטעלונג פֿון „הייסטינגס סטריט“ נעמט אַרײַן טשיקאַווע חפֿצים, ווי באַנקעס פֿונעם עפֿנטלעכן שוויצבאָד